Archive for August, 2008

ING eBanking

ING eBanking

Recently, I signed up for an ebanking account at ING. The first thing I’ve noticed was the digipass (scroll down for pictures) they gave me free of charge. It seems they don’t trust their clients enough to let them use one static password for account access. But that is… a good thing — although I’d rather [...]

The Mojave experiment

The Mojave experiment

It seems Microsoft had a hard time marketing Windows Vista upon launching. Otherwise they wouldn’t creating the following website: mojaveexperiment.com. Basically, a group of people that already had a bad opinion about Vista without trying it out for themselves were shown some of the features of the new Windows Mojave. After being amazed they were [...]

Full or partial articles in feeds?

Full or partial articles in feeds?

Today almost every blog and media website has at least one feed. But some of them prefer to include their entire articles in the feed, while others have only a small snippet or catchy paragraph. The latter ones aim to achieve one goal – by reading the small (and usually teasing) introduction, the person might [...]

TinEye: beta image search engine

TinEye: beta image search engine

Long story short, most SE (search engines) use keywords supplied by people for generating image results. The downside is that by using this technique, SE try to guess the content of an image by it’s file name, surrounding keywords, etc. TinEye tries a different approach. It uses an image provided by you to search for [...]

Favicons: the why and how

Favicons: the why and how

So why should you even bother creating your favicon? It gives you exposure. Visitors can quickly match your website with the image. Just to test this out, can you quickly match each of the following icons to their corresponding website/brand? Favicons are used in bookmarks across many browsers. Your website has the ability to stand [...]

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